Over the last eighteen months, RISC OS Developments Ltd (ROD) has had programmers beavering away on an important development for the platform – a new TCP/IP (i.e. internet) stack (version 7.00) – and it is now available for anyone using the platform to download and install.
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Kevin Wells has identified and fixed a minor bug in BusTimes, his application that can be used to check the timetables of buses and their stops when planning trips in the UK.
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A new version of Prophet has been released by Elesar Ltd, bringing the popular RISC OS accounts software up to version 4.12. Changes in this version include a small user interface improvement, and a handful of fixes to issues reported by users.
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If you want to know the conversion rate from one currency to another – perhaps you’re going on holiday and need some euros, for example, and therefore need to know how much to take out of the bank in pounds sterling – Kevin Wells has an application you’ll find useful.
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With its first release barely a week behind us, MakeMJPEG has been updated to version 0.02 by its developer, Thomas Milius – who notes that the application is now useful standalone, whereas in its original form it needed support built into third party software.
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DeskWatcher is a commercial application released by Thomas Milius towards the end of 2020 that provides RISC OS with its very own system for sharing screens between multiple machines over a network, and an updated version is now available.
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Thomas Milius has been combating bugs in his software, and as a result there is a new version available of the FileAccess module, a fairly old piece of software that he rediscovered during 2021, and gave a polished up for release.
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A new application that may be of use to developers when creating ‘how-to’ videos has been released by Thomas Milius. Called MakeMJPEG, the program can be used to create MJPEG movies – a video format that simply consists of a stream of JPEG images that are displayed one after the other. The format isn’t as versatile as other video file types and containers, but it could form part of a handy screen recording process – and the files can be converted to other formats using other tools, such as FFMPEG.
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During 2021, Chris Hall released a new application called RingBind, intended as an alternative way to present user manuals and other publications on screen. At the point it was noticed here in the Bunker and reported on this site it had reached version 0.15 – and after the most recent update it now stands at version 0.18.
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Yes, it can now take you there and back again. Kevin Wells has released an update to his latest application, KevNav, a route finding tool that uses Wget to look up directions from one place to another on the Transport API website.
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